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Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto
Steve Ballmer is a hoot! Who goes on the record and says "blah-de-blah-de-blah" in regards to a competitor?
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The same guy who jumped around like a crack monkey yelling, "Developers! Deveopers! Developers!" and somebody trying to diminish that competitor.
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Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto
I really hope Steve is just trying to downplay Google Android's significant in the mobile playing field because I feel it is plain to see what Google is trying to accomplish. You give the operating system away for free, it will eventually end up in the hands of millions of users... all of them forced to use your services to use the device. When people use Google's services, Google in turn makes a ton of money off of advertising deals they have in place.
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Only if people actually see those ads. You aren't forced to use Google services on the G1, right? I could access a Yahoo or Hotmail account and use other services, I assume.
Also, I know that I very rarely click on ads. Maybe once in a while as I'm browsing, but if I were using Google docs or something, I'd probably be trying to accomplish a task and not be distracted by an ad.
If they get paid per impression, it won't matter, but if they get paid per click, it most certainly will.
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Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto
That sounds like a very solid revenue model to me. Once again I am keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that the forehead-smacking-comments that come out of Microsoft's Powers That Be mouths as of late are nothing more than schoolyard trash talking in an attempt to throw their competitors off guard.
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It's called FUD.
Steve